Look at the area from east Roanoke Rapids through rocky mount, to wilson and smith field, and we will pan down here a little bit farther to the south, you can see the leading edge of it there, going right through fayetteville. Once that edge goes by, the threat of Severe Weather is over and basically rain event from that point forward. None of the areas are under warnings, there is a flood advisory until 6 00 for heavy rains, again, its a steady rain once the line moves through. We will get a little bit of a lull in the rain, late tonight and tomorrow morning, we may see a return engagement heading in to later parts of the day. We will talk about the mechanism behind that and chilly air that maybe heading our way next week. The rain is causing flash flooding in the mountain, water rising near the boon mall, emergency workers say a person had to be rescued after her car became stuck in a creek. Enough for her to walk to dry land and contemplated getting out of the car on her own, howeve
Decision, the southern part of 540 could have taken combination of the routes including this red one through the heart of garner. Today the dot ruled out the red, and instead decided this is how they want to finish 540. New at 6 00, bryan mims joins us with the next step in the process. The dot says this is only a recommendations this announcement today, regulators are reviewing Environmental Impact studies, and they need to sign off on the route. At 28 miles and 2 billion, transportation Officials Say this route makes the most sense. Thats the 540 project manager, standing beside what the project looks like on paper, a thick orange line, winding over roads and creeks and wet places where the dwarf wedge muscle could dwell. There in lies the bump in the road. There are processes and regulations we have to go reporter mos sl a federally protected species, the dot drew different routes. One bulldozed through garner. Another route would ahave plowed through the home of crystal ball las in
Soontobe pilot and dunn, also strong gusty winds. If youre watching from rocky mount, spring hope, red oak, castilian, likely to get that heavy line as well. As we spread of you farther from e south, fayetteville in line to get showers. Theres not a whole lot of lightning. The Lightning Strikes are confined right now to the moore county area. Another hour to another hour and a half, this one will be well to the east. This one has a history of producing wind damage. All of the blue diamonds up to the west are reported wind damage, that occurred at 1 35 this afternoon, over into ld hill, about 1 00 this afternoon and run the charlotte area, also about lunchtime, they had reported wind damage. So far, we have not had wind damage reports. Now, the line is moving on by but that does not necessarily mean the rain will completely clear the area. Could linger for a while. Will let you know how long it could linger in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. As the rain begins to get heavier th
Did have rain overnight, and we will continue our chance of rain. It may actually increase as we head through the afternoon with some of that rain down to our south and east spreading back across the area. It is a rather gloomy, great start to the morning, and went out there, too, even though we dont have a lot of heavy rain falling. We have a lot of rain last night. But its warm. 63 in durham and Holly Springs. Town by town, 16 south hill, 60 clinton, 54 roxboro. There is the cool air that will come inching across the area during the day and continue to drop our temperatures instead of having the normal warmups. Mid 50s at 8 00 a. M. Through lunchtime and 50 at 4 00. Youre not going to see thunderstorms but you will still need your raincoat and umbrella. Its a little bit messy out there, brian. What are you seeing on the commute . We have an accident that the 440 wade avenue interchange. We are trying to figure out exactly where this is. This is either eastbound 440 inbound wade avenu
63 smithfield. These are the high temperatures for the day. We will see the temps going down. By lunchtime we have rain around i95 corridor and 50s and hover there this afternoon. Rain mainly south. A few rays of sunshine around roxboro. We will have the complete forecast in a bit. Barbara the triangle appears to have dodged any serious damage. Other communities to west not as lucky. Caitlin knute is in raleigh with the story. Caitlin we have been checking for reports of damage or flooding and it appears to be winding down. Earlier it was a different story. At one point there were hundreds without power in durham and raleigh after wind brought down limbs on power lines and drivers were forced to dodge deep the real damage was to the west. Davidson county was hardest hit after gusts up to 50 miles an hour knocked down trees and destroyed homes. No one was hurt. Folks in charlotte have cleanup. Check out this video. Lines. Amazingly, it landed right between two homes. Lucky families ther